Daily Medieval

Jacques Fournier (c.1285 - 25 April 1342) was born in Foix, a county in the southern part of France. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the...

Creating sufficiently high temperatures needed to melt silica and fashion glass was difficult, but at some point we discovered that the addi...

Ephesians 1:11 says "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all thin...

Part 1 showed how Christian writers eventually came to the conclusion that the State was not the result of Man's sinful nature, and had ...

Realism [ link ] At the foundation of philosophy is a question: what defines reality? There are several questions that are connected to ...

The goal of Daily Medieval is to present a sampling of the infinite array of information about the Middle Ages in small, digestible amoun...

Early copy of the Sentences In the Middle Ages, The Bible was recognized as the most important book in existence. No book was more discu...

Expositio & questiones manuscript Jean Buridan (c.1300-c.1361) was a University of Paris scholar who was not afraid to tackle some ...

A church reformer gets his start. We don't know a lot about the early years of John Wycliffe (c.1324-1384). There were likely a few &...